Leather mat.



-No- 837,431. PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906. 'J. R. STINE.

LEATHER MAT.

APPLICATION FILED M1146, 1964,

Parsns co., wAsmNcfN, n. c.

@wi/linden@ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

JOHN R. STINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

, ASSIGNOR TO NEW YORK LEATHER BELTING COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ACORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LEATHER MAT.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906.

T0 all wiz/0m t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN R. STINE, a citi- Zen of the United States, anda resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Leather Mats, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to mats made up of small pieces of leather orsimilar material, the pieces being provided with perforations andholding-rods' passing through the same and the pieces being so arrangedthat interstitial apertures are left across the completed fabric orstructure in order to permit of the free passage of dirt therethrough.

Mats of this general character are not new but it -has always been amatter'of difficulty to so arrange the holding-rods that their free endswould not become loosened and project away from the completed structureand when in such position catch into the clothing or shoes of thepersons standing upon or near the mat. It has been attempted to coverthe free ends of the rods with capping devices and similar structures,but these are apt to become loose, and then the original difficulty tobe removed again obtains.

The purpose of my invention is to remedy the disadvantage referred toand to make an economical and ei'iicient structure.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a portion' of a matconstructed in accordance with my invention, part being broken away.Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a socket-plate. Fig. 3 is a sectionshowing the bent middle portion of the holding-rod. Fig. 4 is a similarsection showing the turnedin ends of the holding-rod.

Referring to the drawings, 2() 2O represent the pieces of which the matis composed.

These are each made, as will be observed, in substantially threesections a l) c, the sections a and c being centrally or otherwiseperforate and the section b being imperforate. The pieces 2O arearranged in groups, which groups consist of a plurality of pieces each,

` the sections a of one group being attached to the same holding-rod asthe sections c of the adjacent groups, so that the pieces, in effect,

break joints, and apertures are thus pro vided between the groups.Passing through the apertures in the series of pieces 20 areholding-rods 30 30. These rods are each bent back at their middleportions or reverted at one side of the mat and on such side passthrough and over the retaining-socket plate 40, Figs. l and 3, which isapertured to permit of their passage. On the other side of the mattingand opposite this reverted end is a similar socket-plate 49, Figs. 1, 2,and 4, adapted to receive the free ends of the rods.

In Fig. 2 I have illustrated the socketplate detached, and in Figs. 3and 4 the socket-plate is shown in position at the respective edges ofthe mat. The socketeplates are each provided with one or moreindentations 44, so that the free ends 32 of the rods can be bentinwardly and caused to be pressed into such indentations to hold them inplace, and when so held they cannot spring out or away from the mat, asthey are apt to do in the form of structure now commonly used, in whichthe ends of the rods are not turned in.

The indentations 44 may be omitted from socket-plates 40, if desired.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. 1 that each alternateholding-rod of the mat is reversed in position, the bent-back orreverted central portion of each rod being at the same side of the matas the free ends of each adjacent holding-rod, whereby the accidentalbreaking oif or bending out of the free ends of any one of the rodswould not permit of the disintegration of the mat to any great extent,for the reason that such an accident would only permit that particularsocketplate and the outer piece of that series to become displaced, theremainder of the pieces of the group or series being retained in placeby means of the unbroken solid central portions of the adjacentholding-rods.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is- A mat comprisinga series of pieces having perforated ends and arranged side by side tocause the perforations of the pieces to register in a straight line, arod-retaining plate at the end of the series having perforations IOOregistering With the perforations in the pieces, and socketsintermediate thereof7 and holding-rods passed through the registeringperforations of the pieces and plate, the tree ends l Witness my handthis 23d day of Februl aryJ 1903, at the oity ofNeW York, in the Io lcounty and State of New York.

JOHN R. STINE.

JOSEPH E. CAVANAUGH,

l Witnesses:

i GEORGE M. BRooKs.

